Wilfrid Laurier University Press imprint: 403 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The result of a dialogue between poets and scholars on the meaning and making of the sacred, this book endeavours to determine how the sacred emerges in sacred script as well as in poetic discourse. It ranges through scholarship in areas as apparently disparate as postmodernism and Buddhism. The perspectives...
Desire Never Leaves
The Poetry of Tim Lilburn
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
The selected poems in Desire Never Leaves span Tim Lilburn’s career, demonstrating the evolution of a unique and careful thinker as he takes his place among the nation’s premier writers. This edition of his poetry untangles many of the strands running through his works, providing insight into...
From the Iron House
Imprisonment in First Nations Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
In From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing, Deena Rymhs identifies continuities between the residential school and the prison, offering ways of reading “the carceral”—that is, the different ways that incarceration is constituted and articulated in contemporary Aboriginal literature....
Women in God’s Army
Gender and Equality in the Early Salvation Army
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
The early Salvation Army professed its commitment to sexual equality in ministry and leadership. In fact, its founding constitution proclaimed women had the right to preach and hold any office in the organization. But did they?
Women in God’s Army is the first study of its kind devoted to...
Anthologizing Canadian Literature
Theoretical and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The first collection of critical essays devoted to the study of English-Canadian literary anthologies brings together the work of thirteen prominent critics to investigate anthology formation in Canada and answer these key questions: Why are there so many literary anthologies in Canada, and how can...
Cubism and Futurism
Spiritual Machines and the Cinematic Effect
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Cubism and futurism were related movements that vied with each other in the economy of renown. Perception, dynamism, and the dynamism of perception—these issues passed back and forth between the two. Cubism and Futurism shows how movement became, in the traditional visual arts, a central factor...
by Jordan Paper
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
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The Sinification of Judaism
Jordan Paper
In this chapter, Paper looks at the practices of the Chinese Jews and how they related in comparison to Judaism in general.
We All Giggled
A Bourgeois Family Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
We All Giggled tells the stories of two families that came together when the author’s parents met and married in 1945. The Hüglins had lost most of their fortune in the course of two world wars, and the Wachendorff s had survived the Nazi years despite their Jewish ancestry. The families’ roots...
Emerging Powers in Global Governance
Lessons from the Heiligendamm Process
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The early twenty-first century has seen the beginning of a considerable shift in the global balance of power. Major international governance challenges can no longer be addressed without the ongoing co-operation of the large countries of the global South. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa,...
Through a Glass Darkly
Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Sacred Space and the Fellowship of Suffering in the Postmodern Sublime
Richard J. Lane
Richard Lane argues that post-structuralist and postmodern theory must enter, as it were, a “sacred space” to reflect on its relation to religion in the humanities, an entrance encouraged by the...
Jews and French Quebecers
Two Hundred Years of Shared History
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Jews and French Quebecers recounts a saga of intense interest for the whole of Canada, let alone societies elsewhere. This work, now translated into English, represents the viewpoints of two friends from differing cultural and religious traditions. One is a French Quebecer and a Christian; the other...
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The figure of Jesus has fascinated Western civilization for centuries. As the year 2000 approaches, eliciting connections with Jesus’ birth and return, excitement grows — as does the number of studies about Jesus. Cutting through this mass of material, Whose Historical Jesus? provides a collection...
by W.V. (Ben) Uttley
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1975
William V. Uttley's outline of Kitchener's growth from the 1840's into 20th century [is] shot through with a reassuring consistency and integration of purpose .... The complex of life as we still know it—social freedom and social restraint, economy and ecology—has its genesis here in the account...
by Audrey J. Whitson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Teaching Places is a tale about a woman’s spiritual search, how that search calls her to the land and how the land teaches. The telling spirals, exploring loss of faith, loss of voice, and the finding of a different, broader faith and a deeper, stronger voice. Her journey takes her to many special...